Obama is not Ellsworth Toohey. Toohey, in the Fountainhead, is brilliant and devious. Toohey understands all that happens in the world, and yet acts on his corrupted sense of morality. Obama, on the other hand, is a dullard. He is bumbling his way from one scandal to the next.

If you want a more real-world shoe-in for Toohey, you'd be better off looking at the murderer and communist Bill Ayers. For proof, just take a look at how he made a dumb young follower with a bad drug habit, no personal identity, and a hatred for any and all male / father figures into a polished respectable looking black man who has reached the top yet hasn't actually accomplished anything in the world inside the government, and outside of the government.

Toohey, because he is always working an angle. Thompson was more of a spokesman. Obama is more of a behind the scenes mover. He certainly has a public side that is like Thompson, but he's very vindictive and manipulative like Toohey.

Toohey. Unlike Mr. Thompson, Obama does manage to be noticed, most of the time because he interjects himself into things that don't involve him. (If I had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin) I could see Toohey, having organized coalition of science "experts", running around claiming "99% of scientists agree..." while leaving out the part that they are all loyal to him.

I say Gus Webb.

"Mr. Thompson" is a physical bully.
"Ellsworth Toohey" is an intellectual bully.
So I conclude that Obama is pretty much a "Mr. Thompson".

Toohey more then Thompson, but what about welsey????

Obama is more Mr. Thompson than Ellsworth M. Toohey. At least the latter had a complete manifesto and stuck to it. Rumors have Obama dreaming his way in front of a large-screen TV half the time.

Also remember that Obama couldn't do what he does without the complacency and conspiracy of the major news media. The same media that for 8 years did everything they could to crucify the Bush Administration (which they deserved for the most part). If the media were as gung ho on Obama as they were for GW Bush, Obama wouldn't be getting very far at all in his evil agenda. And without people like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the others, (who are represented in Atlas Shrugged as people like Wesley Mooch and Mr. Thompson). Remember, no dictator does the dirty work by himself- they always need the assistance of those around them. I.E. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Dung never really pulled the triggers themselves - they get their armies to do that. This has gone on throughout history and it hasn't changed. The Play remains the same, only the cast of characters change.

Obama is very much like Toohey. Look at the similarities. Toohey is an organizer. In the Fountainhead, Toohey organizes all the unions: writers, musicians, art, etc. He brings the people together but is not part of any of them. He stands in the back of the room and lets the people do the work of building the group. Obama never really does anything. He gets all his cronies to do his work: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc. Toohey is what Ayn Rand wanted us to realize as the Intelligentia. He has all this great knowledge, but uses it for an agenda of power. And we finally find out the truth of Toohey in his speech to Peter Keating (at the end of the book) that this 'Friend & Lover of Humanity" is actually a closet dictator who wants to control the world (with a few others along side him). Look at how Toohey speaks of "the Collective Neck" that needs to be chopped off with one swing of the axe. "Just lie out a certain fertilizer", "we serve you poison as a main course, and poison as an anecdote", "observe the pincer movement - we have you coming and going". Look at how many Executive Orders Obama has signed and forced upon the people. In his first term, he signed over 900! Tell me he isn't a dictator. Obama is getting away with things that even George W. Bush could only wish for. Don't be fooled by Obama's obvious tomfoolery. Remember, A. Rand warned us about Obama and the whole evil of government in her books. Obama is just a symptom of the cause. Everyone wants to focus on Howard Roark, but the real emphasis has to be on the evilness of Ellsworth M. Toohey.

In summary, more people liken Obama to Toohey than to Thompson, but both attracted quite a few votes. There was considerable agreement for comparisons between Saul Alinsky and Wesley Mouch, as well as Bill Ayers and Toohey. Very interesting discussion today.